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Word: understands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Michael J. Sullivan, councilman and counsellor to the good people of Cambridge, "I understand Harvard has been here quite a while--over 300 years in fact. Technology people are still children in Cambridge. We'll wait till they grow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Techmen Want to Rechristen Their Harvard Bridge; Cambridge Solon Wonders if M.I.T. Is Here to Stay | 10/29/1946 | See Source »

...small compared to those between the U.S. and the rest of the world. As one U.S. expert put it last week: the London conference will have achieved a great deal if it merely manages to express our official free trade policies in terms that Czechs, Frenchmen and Ecuadorians can understand, even if they do not agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Translation Trouble | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...David Gibson went to his bishop and said that he wanted to work among the poor. The bishop thanked him, noted that he was already carrying a heavy load, asked how much more time he could give. Said layman Gibson: "You don't understand me, sir. I am selling my business and want to give my whole time to the Lord Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christian Worker | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...like you take off your coat at night. And to make the new religion grow organically out of the old, you've got to know the old inside out. . . . You've got to know the beliefs and customs of a people to know how they can best understand the Christian faith and accept it as their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ambassador of Justice | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...glance at the Holy Cross roster, taken apart from its 1946 performance, will make it hard for any football follower to understand how the Crusaders have dropped three of their first four games this season. Another glance, and you begin to understand why the Crimson Varsity is facing what is easily its most rugged opposition of the current season on Saturday afternoon...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/24/1946 | See Source »

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